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New Publication! A Friendship of Thistles

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I'm clearly not focused on self-promotion, as my newest book was published in May and I haven't posted here about it yet! I am also offering a giveaway here . Or get your paperback/ebook copy here for the US , and here for the UK . About the book ‘Where have you been?’ Hector asked. He unfisted a crumpled sheet of test results. Heather said, ‘You’re all bones.’ ‘Fran, threw me out.’ ‘And?’ she asked. Two women. Multiple secrets. The question is: how to forgive your best friend with a heart full of thistles? Read with a friend! A Friendship of Thistles is THE book to read with your closest friend, or group of friends. With great discussion points for a book group. With that said, it’s also for you if you’ve never had a friend nor sustained a thirty-year friendship, or fallen out with a friend and are wondering how to repair the damage done. The story of Heather and Fran brings Edinburgh alive, during lockdown from 2019 to 2020. From a working-class perspective, Parfitt ...

New publication: Seascape

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I am happy to announce the forthcoming publication of a book inspired by my storytelling research. The title Seascape comes from a play on the words ‘sea’ and ‘landscape’. Seascape is the title of one of the stories in the book. I had the idea for it walking the coast line of Cornwall. In particular along the areas connected to Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth. Those familiar with these areas will get a lot of the references to Cornish myths and landscape underlying the story. An old monolithic stone arch at Gyllyndune Gardens (Parfitt, 2012)   Why write a book inspired by research? I had intended the writing to become part of my doctoral thesis. Yet before you think how boring (too late I suppose), the writing did not fit the academic work so I dropped that idea early on. Without using the writing as part of the research process which I did not wish to do at that point I created a book of stories instead. The stories I finally selected are interspersed with quotes from...